Improvement in felly-plates



c. n. EVERET Felly-Plates.

N0.138,624. PatentedMayfi AM PHOTU-LITHOGIFAPHIC 00. M osaonwz F'RocEs) 2 1 2771 eaves UNITED STATES CHARLES D. EVERETT, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN FELLY-PLATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,624, dated May 6, 1873; applies.

March 21, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES D. EVER- ETT, of Cleveland, in the county of Guyahoga and in the State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Felly-Plate; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying draw ing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The present invention is intended as an improvement on the felly.plat'e for which Letters Patent No. 132,065 were granted to myself and A. Baldwin, October 8, 1872; and it consists in the attachment of the tire and fellies togetjp er by an inner plate, placed over the joint of the two adjacent fellies, and held by a single bolt passing directly through the joint, as hereiriafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexeddrawing, in which- Figure 1 is a side view, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, of my invention.

A Arepresent the ends of two, adjoining fellies. B is the tire, G the felly-plate, and D the screw connecting them together. The hole for the bolt or screw D is made half in each felly, the bolt screwing into the plate 0. This plate has flanges or sides projecting well and tightly down the sides of the fellies, as shown in Fig. 1.

The advantages this simple and cheap device possesses over others for a similar purpose, are as follows: It consists of but two pieces, viz., one bolt and one plate. The bolt passes through in the joint, one-half being in each end of the fellies, thus acting as a key and preventing lateral movement of the fellies. In a two-bolt plate there is difficulty encountered in getting the holes for the bolts exactly right, and should they be in the least too wide apart or too near together it will not answer, and much trouble is bad in getting them right. In this one-bolt plate no such trouble is had.

In the construction of a wheel, in putting it together ready to receive the tire, in order to keep the fellies firmly enough united at the ends, it is the custom to place dowels in the ends, and so uniting them. Where my plate is used this trouble need not be gone to, but the hole for the bolt being bored in the joint,

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a wooden pin can be driven in, w "ch will keep the joints and fellies firmly in p cc and enable the putting on of the tire; t in the wooden pin can be driven out and the olt put in.

In repairing a wheel, in setti the tire, it is the custom, in order to allo for shrinkage, to cut oil a little of each en of the felly. This brings the holes of a twojolt plate'too near together, which makes a i eat deal of trouble to get right. With my no such trouble can arise. In the two-bolt plate the holes in the fellies mu be adapted to the plate. In the one-bolt p to the plate is adapted to the hole in the jo t, it making no difl'erence where this is as th lplate will fit any place. 1

No particular shape of plate "s necessary. It may be round, square, diamon oval, or any other shape, but in every case i must project down on each side of the fellie to keep the same from splitting.

The felly-plate O is to be thi the point where the hole goes I rough to receive threads enough to give th strength required. This is accomplished formed on the under part of the bedded into wood, so that the ef does not project beyond the l tside of the plate; hence no dirt, weeds, 6 can lodge or be caught on the end of the j This plate canbe used at any the spokes as well as at the join ffellies, and will also be useful at all poin in securing the felly from splitting, or if th 1 felly at any point shows indication of split ng it can be employed to render the same se ure, and saving the wheel. 1 Having thus fully described what I claim as new, and desi Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the fel; es A A and tire B, the plate 0 with its em dded swell a, provided with female screw-thr d and single bolt D, the bolt passing throu the follies and into the swell j and plate C, substantially as and for the p Irposes herein set forth. 3

In testimony that I claim t c foregoing I have hereunto set my hand t is 26th day of February, 1873. 1

CHARLES D. EVER TT.

y invention, to secure by Witnesses:

ARTHUR ODELL, J ESSE H. MOMATH.

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